Questions tagged [racism]
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Did Gandhi make racist statements about black prisoners?
Did Mahatma Gandhi make racist statements?
In The Guardian article Gandhi branded racist as Johannesburg honours freedom fighter, it's stated that he said
"Many of the native [black] prisoners are only one degree removed from the animal and often…
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Is this 1977 “thank you” letter from Joe Biden real?
The following letter (dated June 30, 1977) claiming to be from Joe Biden is currently floating around social media. Is this real?
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Are women who have consulted a social worker banned from most maternity wards in Christchurch?
A Kiwi friend alerted me to the article 'At-risk' women forced to birth at Christchurch Women's Hospital, or at home at Stuff.co.nz, published November 7, 2020.
The article seems to claim that women thought to be at particular risk of being…
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Did H. Ross Perot call Maya Lin an “Egg Roll?”
Maya Lin’s design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was chosen after a blind competition in the early 1980s.
There were many critics of her design and the design’s realization was an uphill battle at best. She was even personally harassed when her…
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Can classes reduce unconscious racial bias?
Recently on PBS Newshour there was a segment about Silicon Valley and their attempts to hire more diverse employees. A focus of the segment was employee training seminars about unconscious biases--where employees do exercises in order to make…
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Did Harry Anslinger say these things?
Harry Anslinger is often said to have been xenophobic and racist, and that his hate against nonwhites and non-white culture was a driving force in his wish to prohibit cannabis. This is often substantiated with quotes from him.
There are 100,000…
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Did Colonel Sanders use an epithet to describe African Americans?
According to Forbes, Papa Johns founder John Schnatter said:
Colonel Sanders called blacks n-----s
Is it true that Colonel Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, referred to blacks in this offensive manner?
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In the UK, are young white men the most derided ethnic/gender/age group?
A month, or so, ago this YouGov study was trending on FB and attracting some controversy.
The most derided ethnic group in Britain: young white men
YouGov data from 48 separate surveys reveals that young white men are seen as the worst ethnic,…
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Did Priyamvada Gopal say "White lives don't matter"?
I'm seeing many different sources saying that Cambridge professor Priyamvada Gopal said "White lives don't matter" in an interview recently.
Is there some greater context I don't know that makes this less vile?
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Do a third of Trumps twitter followers also follow white supremacists?
A number of articles like this one Have refereed to a study which claims that over 1/3 of trump's followers on twitter are followers of 'white supremacists'.
Is this claim true? are 1/3 of all of trumps supports followers of white supremacists,…
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Is there a trend in western publishing to obscure depictions of ethnic minorities on the covers of Young Adult literature?
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If a YA book features a white, female protagonist ..., it seems inevitable that the book cover will display an idealized and airbrushed masterpiece of her on the cover. And when a YA book actually does have a protagonist of color, too often…
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Does cuckolding porn usually involve interracial sex with an African-American male?
A GQ article states
The cultural importance of the cuckold in America is rooted in racism: in pornography, the wife of the cuckolded (almost exclusively white) husband is most commonly sleeping with African-American men, meant to provide an…
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Are Jewish students over-represented at Harvard University?
According to David Duke:
Jews are dramatically over-represented in comparison with every ethnic/racial group in America. In comparison with European Americans, Jews are almost 47 times more represented than their population would merit. That’s…
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In fields dominated by white males, do white women impede full equality?
In reading a recent article in Business Insider on changes at GitHub, I noticed a rather surprising bullet point by Nicole Sanchez regarding "Diversity and Inclusion in Tech", which was
Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women.
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Has lower IQ been linked to Racism?
This article claims that a study links lower IQ with conservatism and racism. It specifically claims that low IQ makes one more likely to be conservative which, in turn, makes one more likely to be prejudice.
I can not access the original study,…
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